[wplug] OT - Programming Languages

[Gary Morrow]

I would look into Tcl/tk.  Tcl, Perl and Python all use Tk (Tool Kit) 
for cross platform GUIs but Tk was
written originally for Tcl.  I love Perl but this application seems well 
suited to Tcl.  

http://www.tcl.tk/advocacy/top10.html

You can extend the language with C, C++, or Java but you may find it's 
not necessary.

hobbit at euthanized.org wrote:

>As to refreshing:
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>Not if you do it web-based and have your client make RPC calls to a set of
>(PHP/Perl/Python/whatever) functions through JavaScript/DOM scripting.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris" <vze2f6h6 at verizon.net>
>To: <wplug at wplug.org>
>Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:20 PM
>Subject: RE: [wplug] OT - Programming Languages
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
>>>Brian Medley
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>>>I'd try perl first (but that's only because I know and like perl :).
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>You
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>>>could write the hardware code as a C module and load using perl or
>>>somesuch.  Perl has great support for talking to databases.  For the
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>gui,
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>>>you could try perl for gtk, gtk2, wxperl, or perlqt.  You would also
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>have
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>>>the wonders of CPAN at your disposal.
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>>>Another option is python.  I believe it has a similar feature set to
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>what
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>>>perl has to offer.  They both have their strength and weaknesses, but I
>>>can't really comment much on python b/c I have never programmed w/ it.
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>>But if I do the GUI in perl for gtk, gtk2, wxperl, or perlqt then I would
>>have to do a whole different GUI for the Windows platform, right?  I
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>really
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>>don't want to write the GUI twice.  I was thinking about making it
>>web-based, and then the client side doesn't matter.  The only problem is
>>that the browser would have to refresh at least every minute to show the
>>updated time for all the tanning beds.
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>>Chris
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